Securing America with Frank Gaffney Podcast

With Gordon Chang, Michael Cutler, Benjamin Weingarten and Megan Oprea

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger, The Daily Beast Contributor:

• Another North Korean missile test
• How China could solve the North Korean nuclear problem

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

• Why illegal immigration is far worse than we know
• Refuting the argument that sanctuary cities are safer 

BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC:

• Where democracy is dying around the world
• Media hypocrisy on Turkey
• Hamas’ ‘new’ principles 

MEGAN OPREA, Senior Contributor at the Federalist, Editor of INBOUND:

• Deteriorating security in Afghanistan
• Baltic states look to US and NATO for military presence

With Fred Fleitz, Daniel Horowitz, Andrew Arthur, Michel Gurfinkiel and Itamar Marcus

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA analyst, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Why did Trump choose now to fire FBI Director James Comey?
• Morale at the FBI
• Concerns about acting Director McCabe

DANIEL HOROWITZ, Senior Editor at Conservative Review:

• The FBI’s role in the counter-jihad
• Legislative and Executive authority outsourced to the Judiciary branch

ANDREW ARTHUR, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy for the Center for Immigration Studies:

• Legal and Constitutional authority behind Trump’s immigration order
• Fraud in the “Credible Fear” process

MICHEL GURFINKIEL, Founder and President of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute:

• French President-elect Emmanuel Macron’s appeal to conservative Republicans
• Macron’s positions on Europe Union and Islamism

ITAMAR MARCUS, Director of Palestinian Media Watch:

• President Trump’s focus on Palestinian incitement
• Abbas’ claim that he is raising children toward peace
• Trump’s approach to an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal

With Joe diGenova, Faith McDonnell, Diana West, Riki Ellison

JOE dIGENOVA, Former U.S. Attorney, District of Colombia, Former Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the Senate Rules Committee:

• FBI Director James Comey fired by President Trump
• How Comey’s departure will affect current investigations
• Democrats seeking special counsel to investigate Russia election involvement 

FAITH MCDONNELL, Director of Religious Liberty Programs at the Institute of Religion and Democracy:

• History of the South Sudan
• Obama’s failed policy on South Sudan
• Genocide in the Nuba Mountains 

DIANA WEST, Author of Death of the Grown Up and American Betrayal:

• Reasons behind James Comey’s firing
• Comey’s testimony about Huma Abedin forwarding classified e-mails to Anthony Weiner
• Need for serious investigation of Russian subversion across the board

RIKI ELLISON, Chairman and Founder of Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance:

• Nuclear threat from North Korea
• THADD missile defense system
• Impediments to operationalizing a missile defense system in Hawaii

With Andy McCarthy, Shae Armstrong, Douglas Murray and Kevin Freeman

With Andy McCarthy, Shae Armstrong, Douglas Murray and Kevin Freeman

ANDY MCCARTHY, Contributing Editor of National Review, Former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York:

• Senate hearing on Russian involvement in the Presidential election
• FBI Director James Comey
• Jared Kushner’s family exploiting influence

SHAE ARMSTRONG, Principal of Law Office of Shae Armstrong, PLLC, an EB-5 consulting and private practice law firm in Dallas, Texas:

• EB-5 Visa Program
• Nicole Kushner Meyer’s promotion of One Journal Square
• National Security concerns on the EB-5 Visa

DOUGLAS MURRAY, Author of The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam:

• Western civilization’s suicide
• French election

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, host of Economic War Room on The Blaze:

• SWIFT and CIPs – international payment systems
• Confucius Institutes

With Gordon Chang, Peter Huessy, Michael Waller and Michael Cutler

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist, World Affairs Journal Blogger:

• Jared Kushner’s sister courting Chinese investors
• Chinese urging U.S. to fire Pacific Command chief Harris

PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institution for Aerospace Studies:

• Evaluating Iran and U.S. interests
• Tehran’s ambitions in Yemen
• Should President Trump be trying to meet with Kim Jong Un?

MICHAEL WALLER, Senior Vice President for Governmental Affairs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Were the Russians really trying to get Donald Trump elected?
• Ted Kennedy’s collaboration with the Soviets
• Congressional fund to counter Russian propaganda

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

• How labor unions have undermined U.S. national immigration policies
• Evaluation of the Trump administration’s record on immigration thus far

With Nonie Darwish, Rowan Scarborough, Russ Dallen and Bill Gertz

NONIE DARWISH, Founder of Arabs for Israel, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy:

• Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt
• Is FGM just a cultural problem?
• Difference between FGM and ‘female circumcision’

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security Reporter at The Washington Times:

• British spy responsible for Trump Buzzfeed dossier admits charges are unverified
• Deployment of THADD missile battery to South Korea
• Mark Green – next Trump pick for Army Secretary 

RUSS DALLEN, President and Editor in Chief at the Latin American Herald Tribune:

• Corey Lewandowski leaves lobby firm after reports of lobbying for CITGO
• Venezuelan Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act 

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Chinese supercomputers surpassing U.S. capabilities
• Politicized security clearance process
• MEMRI study about countering online jihad

With Dr. Paul Kengor

PAUL KENGOR, Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College:

• Soviet role in shooting Pope John Paul II
• The Pope’s visit to Warsaw in 1979

(PART TWO):

• Jimmy Carter’s Poland gaffe
• Why freeing Poland was the key to freeing the rest of the Soviet Block 

(PART THREE):

• Reagan and Pope assassination attempts
• NSDD 75
• The various instrumentalities brought to bear to bring down the Soviet Union

(PART FOUR):

• How President Reagan faced an existential threat to freedom and how to apply it to our own time
• Differences between Trump and Reagan 

(PART FIVE):

• The role the left has played in undermining the Constitution and making common cause with our enemies

With John Fonte, Diana West, Mark Schneider and Fred Fleitz

JOHN FONTE, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for American Culture at the Hudson Institute:

• The role sovereignty played in the election of President Trump
• The struggle between national self-determination and rule between global authority

DIANA WEST, Author of The Death of the Grownup and American Betrayal:

• Anniversary of Joseph McCarthy’s death
• Parallels between the 1950s and today

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy:

• North Korea’s latest missile launch, EMP or failure?
• A New Nuclear Review for a New Age

FRED FLEITZ, former CIA officer, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

• Threat from North Korea
• Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about Russian meddling in the US election

 

With Rachelle Peterson, Kevin Freeman, Daniel Pipes and Peter Huessy

RACHELLE PETERSON, Director of Research Projects at the National Association of Scholars:

• Confucius Institutes – the Chinese government’s presence on U.S. college campuses
• Implications of a Chinese influence operation targeting young Americans 

KEVIN FREEMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Host of Economic War Room coming to The Blaze Summer 2017:

• Chinese funding and access to the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope
• Russia’s potential use of CITGO for economic warfare

DANIEL PIPES, Founder and President of Middle East Forum:

• Congressional Israel Victory Caucus
• Broadening the debate over Israeli-Palestinian Peace

PETER HUESSY, Director for Strategic Deterrent Studies at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies:

• President Trump’s invitation to Kim Jong Un
• Can we end the nuclear threat from North Korea without regime change?
• Our options on Iran

With Russ Dallen, Gordon Chang, Suzanne Scholte and John Guandolo

GORDON CHANG, Author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World:

• President Trump’s ‘friendship’ with Xi Jin Ping
• Latest North Korean missile test
• Trump’s comments about terminating U.S.-South Korea trade agreement
• Duterte’s visit to the White House

SUZANNE SCHOLTE, President of the Defense Forum Foundation, Chairman of the North Korea Freedom Coalition:

• North Korea Freedom Week
• How information is being smuggled into North Korea
• The biggest threat to the Kim Jong Un regime
• President Trump’s policy on regime change 

JOHN GUANDOLO, President and founder of Understanding the Threat:

• Muslim Brotherhood terrorist designation
• How to equip law enforcement with the information needed to counter the jihadist threat

RUSS DALLEN, President and Editor-in-Chief at The Latin American Herald Tribune, Head of Caracas Capital Markets:

• Minimum wage increase in Venezuela
• GM leaves Venezuela after government seizes plants
• Citgo’s Trump inauguration gift